A chat with Martha Lane Fox about digital inclusion
I caught up with Martha Lane Fox, the UK’s digital champion, to talk about Race Online 2012 and the Pass IT on campaign. She reveals that there are 10 million people in the UK who have never used the Internet – and appeals for your help in bridging that gap.
Worryingly, four million of these people are also amongst the country’s most socially excluded. So the people who have the most to gain from the internet – whether to overcome isolation or to save money – are the ones who are missing out. And this pattern plays out all over the world.
So, wherever you are, if you know someone who is unsure about whether or not to get online, now’s the time to tell them about the benefits.
And in the UK, the Pass IT on website has plenty of useful resources. Additionally, tomorrow is Silver Surfers’ Day in the UK, so stay tuned for another update from us in the next day or two.
raceonline2012 is great, it is helping many people, but part of the problem is the lack of decent broadband in a third of ‘digital’ britain. There are many areas where people would love to get online but can’t, roughly 3 million households can’t get the minimum 2meg usc and many notspots who are still on dial up with no mobile signal either.
Wish Martha had been made the champion of those people instead of the refuseniks.
do you think everyone will somehow check in each day on their computer?
Regimentation? is the same rules on footlockers today as in the 50′s & 60′s and do people still get shot in the Army for having food in one?
Will that be the next thing our government tax dollars fund?
We have light and only Atlantic seems to use it, is it more costly or somehow inferior to satellite/cable or were just the baaby steps?